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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Matthews knock on Elijah's door?
(a) May 15, 1832.
(b) May 5, 1832.
(c) May 5, 1833.
(d) June 5, 1832.

2. What did Matthews and Joseph Smith advocate for society?
(a) A strong government.
(b) A strong matriarchy.
(c) Equality between men and women.
(d) A strong patriarchy.

3. What did Matthews do after failing to convince his wife to follow him?
(a) He took his 3 sons.
(b) He held her hostage.
(c) He went to a hospital.
(d) He took his daughter.

4. Why did Elijah leave his childhood town?
(a) Train as a clerk.
(b) Train as a journalist.
(c) Train as a physician.
(d) Train as a banker.

5. What did the middle class' evangelical reformist movement think of the Calvinist family structure?
(a) It was oppressive to women.
(b) It was supportive of slavery.
(c) It was good for women.
(d) It was equitable.

6. How long did Elijah pray at Sarah's funeral?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 12 hour.
(c) 2 hour.
(d) 6 hour.

7. When did Matthews abandon his family?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1831.

8. Who did Matthews come to resent after his release from prison?
(a) Margaret and the Finneyites.
(b) Presbyterians.
(c) Kirk and the Finneyites.
(d) Catholics.

9. What church did Matthews attend as a child?
(a) The first Scot Church.
(b) The Burgher Anti-Secession Temple.
(c) The Anti-Burgher Secession Church.
(d) The Burgher Secession Church.

10. How many of his sons did Matthews lose to illness between 1816 and 1819?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

11. What was perceived as the enemy by sects forming in the 1820's to the 1840's?
(a) Progressivism.
(b) The Government.
(c) The Yankee middle class.
(d) The Atheists.

12. What was Sarah diagnosed with?
(a) Small pox.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) The plague.

13. Who personified the middle class' evangelical reformists of the 1820's and 1840's?
(a) Elijah Smith.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) James Kirk.
(d) Charles Grandison Finney.

14. What did Elijah say he would do during Sarah's funeral?
(a) Make her disappear.
(b) Raise her from the dead.
(c) Bury her himself.
(d) Make her smile.

15. Who did Matthews strike a cord with according to the "Prologue"?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Men.
(c) Women.
(d) Those afraid of change.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sarah die?

2. When did Matthews marry Margaret?

3. What did Elijah and Sarah Start to get prostitutes off the street?

4. When did Matthews beat a woman according to historical evidences?

5. Where was Matthews going at the start of the "Prologue"?

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